History creates comprehensibility primarily by arranging facts meaningfully and only in a very limited sense by establishing strict causal connections.
Our culture now wonderfully, alchemically transforms images and history into artistic material. The possibilities seem endless and wide open.
History is admirably dangerous. It is not the soft option. Teachers need to be grown up and brave. Sensitivity is fine, but it stops at the door of honest narrative.
A generation without history is a generation that not only loses a nation's memory but loses a sense of what it's like to be inside a human skin.
'Wonder Woman' was on TV when I was growing up, and I knew Lynda Carter was part Latina. It gave me a great sense of pride.
Carter's done a lot more good since he's been out of the White House than when he was in it.
To be sure, hunters and sportsmen back gun rights. Beyond that, there are millions who see guns as a defense against fear - fear of criminals breaking into their homes or assaulting them on city streets.
I've had some wonderful times at the White House. I've been with Ford, Carter, Reagan, Clinton and Bush.
Rubin 'Hurricane' Carter: [to Lesra] Hate put me in prison. Love's gonna bust me out.
Theo: We're looking for two Negros in a white car. Rubin 'Hurricane' Carter: Any two will do?
Now people look at 'The Scream' or Van Gogh's 'Irises' or a Picasso and see its new content: money. Auction houses inherently equate capital with value.
There's a dark underside to philanthropy. People who give a bunch of money are deferred to, even when they are wrong. The emperor cannot be shown to have no clothes.
Carter Chambers: Edward, I've had baths that were deeper than you.
You don't need to spend a lot of money on stuff when you have amazing architecture.
Our commitment to coaches will be realized via TeamCarew, a grassroots marketing program that will provide them with insight and tools to teach the art and science of hitting.
Jimmy was in a league of his own when it came to puerile, half-pissed badinage.
Don't make me kill you at this hour in the morning Jimmy. It's not civilized.
The conversation ran as fluidly as the tea out of the samovar’s crooked nose.
All I know for sure is that issues like race, like class, are always best approached with compassion and open-mindedness.
The only way you can get good, unless you're a genius, is to copy. That's the best thing. Just steal.
I could care less about sitting around and practicing the guitar for hours a day and trying to be the best guitar player on the planet.
